FINDING YOUR FORTE

SOAR FINDINGS – CITY COUNCILPERSONS / COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

STRENGTHS

OPPORTUNITIES

RESULTS

ASPIRATIONS

 City employee housing, city employee housing. The city should be doing a partnership with APS and the Land Bank to do housing next door to a lot of the schools for staff within the school system.  Land Bank is uniquely positioned to

 We should aspire to house city employees, firefighters, sanitation workers.  Train council persons to work with organizations on how to work with with the Land Bank.  Affordable housing and economic opportunities.  Like Paris that bought up commercial properties to create low barrier entryways for small businesses to specifically preserve missing middle housing.  Ending homelessness compassionately and sustainably

 City workers being able to own property in the city of Atlanta  Unemployment rates  Graduation rates rise, because

we're creating permanent living units in areas that have previously been neglected.

look at defining affordability in support of housing in highly amenitized communities around market rate housing.

 Income brackets are regaining diversity

 Land Bank is uniquely positioned to acquire more properties to utilize for more equitable opportunities  Hold the city's feet to the fire in terms of the ability to control land is one of the greatest powers that people seek to attain. Privilege and leverage should be used to ensure that we are planning for our most vulnerable first and foremost so that we have a trickle up effect.

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